Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 732 Soft Persimmons

In fact, after all these years, the Boers who are unwilling to stay in southern Africa have almost left. Those who have not yet left either have accepted the reality, or are unwilling and still have fantasies.

In fact, even if Louis Botha didn't say anything, Roque also planned to gradually develop the farms in Orange. Except for some officers and soldiers of the third and fourth divisions who will be transferred to the navy and air force, most of the officers and soldiers will be retired. Going to Orange with their families, because they were both professional soldiers with strong military literacy, so they don't have to worry about the hostility of the Boers, they are not afraid of the soft and the hard.

When the train arrived in Little Rock, Louis Botta finally saw the train station in perfect condition. There were four clean and tidy platforms. The height of the ticket hall and waiting hall was at least 15 meters. The channel left the platform, and the staff on the platform were basically women, which surprised Louis Botha.

The so-called male master outside the female master only exists in the upper class. The real bottom people have no right to choose. Even underage children have to work in factories, and women are the same.

The same is true in southern Africa. There are many women workers in textile factories in Johannesburg, but there are very few women in government departments. There are only a few women officers in the police department, and the Ministry of Agriculture is full of men.

"Now you know why I want to immigrate. Nyasaland's human resources are very tight. There are women in service personnel, internal staff, nurses, teachers, and even the army. What if I don't immigrate?" Rock will definitely not ignore half the sky The role of the university is to take a step back and say that at least it is not tiring to work with men and women. The proportion of women in Nyasaland University is close to 40.00%. In a few years, women will enter almost all industries.

"You don't need to make excuses for yourself. You spend your own money to emigrate, and no one cares about it." Louis Botha envied and hated all kinds of things. On the issue of immigration, the advantage of the Chinese is too great, and the whites are simply unable to compete.

Rock was proud, he and Louis Botha definitely didn't need to use the underground passage, the car on the special train drove directly to the platform, and the group of people left in the car.

That night, Rock placed Louis Botha and his party at the De Beers Hotel next to Cecil Rhodes Square.

When he saw this name, Louis Botha's expression twitched again.

In southern Africa, the influence of capital is everywhere. The hotels with the largest number in southern Africa are the De Beers Hotel and the Capet Hotel. These two hotels have a tacit understanding. The De Beers Hotel focuses on high-end, and the Capet Hotel takes the civilian route. , As a result, the Capet Hotel, which was established later, has now spread all over southern Africa, as long as there are branches of the Capet Hotel in any decent city.

Rock didn't care about market share for a long time. The De Beers Hotel is very good, and Rock doesn't want to compete with Stoudemire for business. All the facilities in the hotel can be used by Rock at will, and there is no need to make an appointment at all.

The De Beers Hotel is indeed well-equipped with gymnasium, swimming pool, restaurant, bar, meeting room, everything you need is available, the key is that the service attitude is very good, the standard British noble service, the hotel All managers are from Europe.

"Remind your men, don't make trouble in Nyasaland. Not long ago, the precious son of Marshal Hopkins crashed the statue of Mr. Cecil Rhodes while driving while drunk. Marshal Hopkins paid for it. I still have to send Bright away for 25 rand." Rock kindly reminded that Louis Botha himself must be fine, and he wouldn't be so inconspicuous, and Louis Botha's entourage is not so well-bred.

"Bullshit, didn't your Ministry of Justice check Marshal Hopkins's personal finances? 25 rand, tsk tsk—" Louis Botha's expression was rather beating.

"Hehe, Lord Farwalt paid for it—" Rock would not ask for trouble. Hopkins is old and sophisticated, and he never makes mistakes in this kind of problem.

With Hopkins' normal income level, it is really difficult to pay 25 rand at a time, but Hopkins has a good son-in-law, and Henry is also a top rich man who is a gold mine, a steel factory and a cement factory. 25 rand is really trivial.

"Hehe, it's only been a few years—" Louis Botha was indignant, as if when Louis Botha met Rock and Henry for the first time, Rock and Henry didn't have much money, and it's only been ten years, Luo Rock and Henry are now the top richest people in southern Africa. It is no wonder that some Boers can't figure it out. In their opinion, everything that Rock and Henry owns now should belong to the Boers.

"What do you want to say? All our wealth was plundered from the Boers? Don't be so extreme. From the discovery of gold mines in Johannesburg in 1866 to the outbreak of the war in 1899, there was a total of 33 years. During these 33 years, what else did you do besides mining? I didn’t see the previous mine owner take out the gold and share it equally with all the Boers—” Rock hit the nail on the head, and he was merciful enough not to directly call the Boers trash.

"During the Transvaal Republic, the gold mines in Johannesburg were also controlled by the British." Of course, Louis Botha would not admit defeat easily.

"Your words are untenable. Why are the gold mines discovered during the Transvaal Republic controlled by the British? Can you develop them yourself—" Rock didn't take the elevator. Anyway, the restaurant is on the second floor. The only one is the VIP passage, the one that goes directly to the second floor and enters the box.

The box must be all kinds of magnificence, and the wall is actually Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", which has become the object of Louis Botha's satire.

"Fake, do you think if this is true, Cecil would be willing to hang it here?" Rock didn't even look at it. There was a "Mona Lisa" on the wall in the corridor outside Stoudemire's office, who would believe it.

"Arty!" Louis Botha criticized harshly.

"Don't care if it's arty or what, everything we own is created by our own hands, yes, our first pot of gold did come from the gold mines in Johannesburg, as did Mr. Cecil Rhodes' first pot of gold Diamonds from Kimberley, but we are never satisfied, and we will not sleep on our grades. If Mr. Cecil Rhodes was satisfied with being a millionaire at that time, then there would be no Rhodes later West Asia, if Henry and I were only satisfied with the wealth obtained from mining gold mines, then there would be no Fawalt and Nyasaland." Rock despises Louis Botha's small family style, and he is obviously a dignified minister , making myself follow up with Grandma Liu in the Grand View Garden.

This passage hit Louis Botha really hard, and he didn't recover until Stoudemire entered the door.

Of course, Stoudemire came here to have a meal, and he didn't show much respect when he saw Louis Botha, he just nodded.

Of course, Louis Botha didn't get up, and he didn't even nod his head. He was probably still thinking about why he lost the Boer War.

It is said that after losing the first Boer War, if the Boers learned from the pain and used the spirit of Roque to build Nyasaland, they might not have no effort when the second Boer War broke out. .

Of course, this kind of hindsight is basically useless. If the Boers have this foresight and vision, even if only one person has it, they will not be beaten to death.

"What did you say to Mr. Minister?" Stoudemire also found that something was wrong with Louis Botha, and subconsciously felt that he had something to do with Rock.

"We're talking about the great achievements of Mr. Cecil Rhodes—" Rock immediately flattered him.

Stoudemire immediately smiled.

"Mr. Cecil Rhodes is indeed great. When the Transvaal Republic was established, we obviously had more opportunities in Rhodesia, but in the end it was Mr. Cecil Rhodes who brought Rhodesia It became part of southern Africa, and as a result we lost depth, and we were besieged by the enemy, so it is very unfair to say that London is unfair to Mr. Cecil Rhodes. It is not so much that we lost to Lord Halewood. Said that we lost to Mr. Cecil Rhodes, and the final result of the war was already doomed when Mr. Cecil Rhodes took Rhodesia." Louis Botha finally came to his senses, What he said had other meanings.

Rock's Stoudemire immediately sounded the alarm.

These two had a tacit understanding, looked at each other, smiled and made faces at each other, and didn't take it to heart at all.

Louis Botha did not expect to provoke the relationship between Rhodesia and London with a few words. Rhodesia is still a part of southern Africa, and it is almost a state with Nyasaland and Transvaal. Stoudemire is not stupid. He really has an independent mind. He would not have chosen to join Nyasaland in southern Africa.

"No, even if you have depth and no enemies, you will still lose the war in the end, but if you are not surrounded, you can choose to go to Tanganyika or Southwest Africa." Rock is not cold, the outcome of the war will be It’s as simple as what Louis Botha said. In the final analysis, it is still strength. The total population of the Boers is only 44. The British mobilized 45 troops at one go. Yes, the Boers have such a small population base that unweaned children can't beat the British even with guns.

"Why Tanganyika and Southwest Africa?" Louis Botha was very sensitive, but Roque really didn't accuse the Boers and the Germans of the incident: "It's really come to that point, whether it's West Africa or East Africa, or The Congo Free State is a better option."

Louis Botha is also a ruthless person. When he went to Tanganyika and Southwest Africa, he could only rely on others. The Boers could not beat the British and the Germans, but Portugal and Belgium are both soft persimmons, and they can still be squeezed together. Pinched.

(End of this chapter)